Ann Anda

 

Ann Anda’s long and successful career in advertising and marketing started in l968, when she joined the legendary DKG boutique agency in New York City as a junior copywriter.

 

During her first year at DKG, Ann won the coveted Gold Key award for copywriting and was soon recruited by BBD&O, where she stayed for ten years, rising through the ranks to become that agency’s first woman vice president.  While at BBD&O she won many creative awards, including the Cannes Gold Lion for her commercial for Scott Paper Towels.  As a creative director for BBD&O World Wide Advertising (now Ominicom), Ann was instrumental in the successful roll out of new brands for Scott Paper and Pillsbury.  She managed the creative end of advertising and marketing for such internationally famous brands as Gillette, Nestle, Pepsi, General Electric, Vicks, Hormel, and many more.

 

She later formed her own advertising agency, Anda and Scotti, with two other partners, the first fully female owned agency in New York City, where it operated successfully for 15 years.  Among its clients were American Express, CBS, Aerosole Shoes, Playmobile and Hasbro Toys.

 

Ann left New York City in 2001 to settle in Bar Harbor, Maine where she continues to work as a freelance consultant and counsel at Downeast Maine SCORE.

 

Ray Becker

 

Ray graduated from Dartmouth College and holds a Masters Degree in Engineering and Business Administration from the Thayer and Tuck professional schools there, as well.  He also has an MS in Management from MIT’s Sloan School.

 

Ray spent most of his career in the aerospace industry, working for RCA AstroElectronics and Raytheon.  He served in business management, information systems, scientific computer management, sales, marketing and project management.  Following Raytheon, he joined Keane, Inc., a software development firm, where he was Vice President and General Manager of the Information Services Division.  During his tenure Ray and his team grew the Division from $25 million in sales to over $500 million and quadrupled the Division’s profitability percentage (Return on Sales).

 

Upon retirement he started his own management consulting company and undertook general management consulting assignments with other information services companies in the US and Europe.

 

He has served on the board of Metro Information Services and was President of the Technical Services Division of the Information Technology Association of America, a trade group.  Ray has been a SCORE counselor since 2002.

 

Ed Bigney

 

Ed is a Greenville native, an Ellsworth resident, and a graduate of the University of Maine, where he majored in engineering.  Ed spent his professional career in the paper industry with Great Northern and Champion International. Most of his career was in mechanical pulping operations management and engineering. He also spent time in process controls engineering and management. After his retirement in 2004, he continued working in this field, primarily in process engineering consulting in both pulping and the oil and gas industries.

 

Ed is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Technical Association of the Pulp & Paper Industry. He has been a SCORE volunteer since 2006.

 

Ed was raised in the small business environment and continues to assist in family land management activities, primarily in wood harvesting operations.

 

Bill Dohmen

 

During a fifteen-year career in banking, Bill worked as a commercial lender and credit policy officer, first with Mellon Bank and then as vice president at Philadelphia National Bank.  In credit policy at Mellon, Bill was assistant head of the Entertainment Industries Group, setting policy and reviewing loans to TV, radio, film, and cable companies, newspapers and magazines, casinos and health clubs, among others.  At PNB he managed a portfolio of over $100 million in loans to middle-market companies in a wide variety of industries.  Bill is trained in business valuation, cash-management products and international banking.  In the process of creating bond issues for clients, Bill earned a Series-7 license as a securities broker.

 

Prior to his banking career, Bill’s was a professor of English literature, teaching at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Eastern Kentucky University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

 

Both during his banking career and since his retirement, Bill has served on the boards of both for-profit corporations and non-profit organizations.  For three years he acted as consultant/CFO for Moritz Corp., an airplane-instrumentation manufacturer.  More recently, Bill has chaired the Bar Harbor Warrant Committee, and been Treasurer and then President of the Acadia Senior College in Bar Harbor.

 

Vikki Evers

 

Vikki Evers was born in Bloomington, IL but was raised in Hollywood, FL. She attended Florida State University where she studied Math and Art History and met her husband Ron. Together they moved to Orono, ME where they started a natural food store which they ran for 11 years, eventually adding a bakery and restaurant as well.  While vacationing in Bar Harbor, they bought a badly neglected, but lovely old shorefront shingle-style "cottage" and after an extensive hands-on renovation, opened it as a Bed and Breakfast which they ran for 20 years. In researching the period and decorating the Inn she became interested in the Arts & Crafts Movement and started a primarily on-line company selling reproduction carpets, fabrics and wallpaper designs. She is now retired, but has recently designed and had built a smaller, easier-to-heat shingle-style home.

 

Barbara Fox

 

Barbara graduated from Averett College, Danville, VA, with an Associate Degree in Merchandising and for 5 years owned, managed, and later sold, a Maine retail store, The Yarmouth Country Store.

 

For the next 14 years, Barbara was employed by The Maine Automobile Association (AAA) where she received ongoing training in Management Techniques, Legal and Industry Affairs, and Managing for Profit. She assumed responsibility for their struggling Travel Agency and built it into a profitable

arm of the company with over $5 million in sales. While managing the travel agency, she also was Director of Member Services and Personnel. Eventually Barbara was named Director of all Business Development and Branch Offices. This included oversight of Maine AAA's Insurance, Road Service, Auto Travel, Outside Sales etc. In addition, she developed and operated an auto travel program for the Canadian Government Office of Tourism.

 

In 1985, after relocating to Bar Harbor, Barbara opened her own Travel Agency. The business eventually owned it's own building and had a staff of 5 employees. She sold it, profitably, 14 years later. She has been a counselor for SCORE since 2001.

 

Cynthia Livingston

Cynthia Livingston is a partner of Cambio International (www.cambiointernational.com), a human resources and organization development consulting practice.  She has over thirty years experience as a human resources executive and practitioner, organization consultant and business analyst. Cynthia holds an MBA from Suffolk University with concentrations in organization development and finance.

Prior to co-founding Cambio International, she worked at Watson Wyatt Company, an international human resources consulting firm.  Cynthia has also served in consulting, business planning, and human resources management roles within the DuPont Company, as well as all sizes and stages of organizations in biotechnology, high technology, financial services, hotel and hospitality, human services, healthcare and not-for-profit industries.  Cynthia is a resident of Mt. Desert Island and started as a counselor with SCORE in 2010.

 

Doris Masten

 

Doris graduated from Columbia University with a Master of Arts Degree following a Bachelor of Science Degree from the State University of N.Y. at Cortland.  For thirty years she was a real estate broker and owner of Masten Construction, specializing in land development, and residential and commercial construction in the Hudson Valley of N.Y. The next 21 years she was owner/partner in a large historic country inn in Rhinebeck, N.Y., where she was involved in historic restoration of numerous buildings on the National Register and management at the inn.  She had her own retail business dealing in Antiques and Decorative Accessories as well as several apartment complexes and a car wash.  During this time she was  president of the local Chamber of Commerce, on the County Board of Tourism and a member of the County Planning Advisory Board.  Upon retiring she and her husband purchased a home in Hancock, ME, where she has been a counselor for Score since 2004.

 

Don Mordecai

 

Don graduated from Colby College, holds an MA from Cornell University and an MBA from Babson College.

 

He worked in a family food brokerage business for fifteen years, serving in sales, marketing, information technology and finance.   After the business was sold, Don and a partner founded a business that provided marketing, financial and management services and software for franchised group mental health practices in Massachusetts.  The company also contracted with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to manage a residence for emotionally disturbed adolescents.

 

Don then worked in financial, facilities and administrative management in private schools.  He worked with school administrators and board members on planning, facility renovation, new construction, legal and finance issues.

 

Throughout his career Don has been active in his communities, has consulted with government, nonprofit organizations and for profit businesses and startups.  After he retired he consulted with a startup school in New York City and is currently involved in town committees and organizations.

 

 

Howard (Buzz) Stevens

 

Buzz is a Maine native from Old Town and has been a member of the Downeast Chapter of SCORE since 1994.  He attended U-Maine, U-Maryland, and Ohio State, graduating from Western New England College, (originally known as the western branch of Northeastern}, with a BBA-Mgmt. Major.

 

His lifetime experiences include four years with USAF as a technical instructor, 32 years with A.T.T in operations, training, accounting, engineering and finally marketing.  His involvement in the family business, Evergreen Pottery, located in downtown Bar Harbor, provided him with a varied and valuable background in both wholesale and retail sales, with all the related requirements, such as show application, presentation, accounting and taxes.

 

Bob Strauss

 

 

Until his retirement in January 2008, Bob served as president, chief executive officer & chairman of Noven Pharmaceuticals.  During his 10-year tenure, Noven established itself as a leading developer of advanced transdermal drug delivery technologies and prescription transdermal products.

 

Prior to his career at Noven, Bob was most noted for his service as president, chief executive officer & chairman of Cordis Corporation, a publicly-traded medical device company with domestic and international operations. He was instrumental in the strategic development of that company in the late 1980s and 1990s, and under his leadership revenues increased from $100 million to $500 million.

 

Bob began his career in engineering and technical positions at Eastman Kodak Company and later General Electric.  He then joined Touche-Ross and Company where he managed the Management Consulting side of the business. He focused extensively on healthcare, performing additional assignments in the manufacturing and textile industries.  He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in physics from the University of Illinois and the University of Idaho, respectively.

Norcross (Pete) Teel. Jr.

 

Norcross (Pete) Teel, Jr. is a retired Senior Vice President of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York .  He was in charge of all commercial real estate investment and related activities for nine years.  He was also Chairman and CEO of Mony Real Estate Investors, a public REIT. He is a former Governor of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts.

Upon retiring from Mony, he became a real estate advisor to Fortis, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of a Netherlands insurance and investment company, a position he held for seven years.   In 1999 he really retired, although he continues to consult on commercial real estate matters including those related to retirement and assisted living communities.